Born in 1975, James Vella Clark is one of Malta's main expressionist interpreters of the Maltese urban and rural landscape. Since his first public exhibition in 2001, his works have been gradually gaining a more abstract dimension. These eventually, became part of a natural process that led to his current abstract work.

Today, the artist's main idiom is abstraction which lends mostly to the abstract expressionist movement of the fifties and sixties. If we could speak of a movement or school of expressionism in Malta, James Vella Clark would definitely belong to it.

Besides a number of solo exhibitions in Malta, James Vella Clark has held personal exhibitions in Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Australia and New York. Over the years he was also invited to participate in collective exhibitions in Barcelona, Florence, Brussels, Duisburg, Vienna, and London.